SUSIE CORNFIELD was given a typewriter when she was seven years old and can't remember a time when she didn't want to be a writer. She trained as a journalist on a local newspaper before joining The Sunday Times. She went on to be a columnist on The Sunday Telegraph Magazine while working as a documentary writer for BBC TV. She has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines and was a TV presenter/producer for United Artists. Her first book was The Queen's Prize, the story of the National Rifle Association of Great Britain.

She works from a garret on a hill in south London, emerging sometimes to spend time with her family, friends and cat, BB Edwards, play tennis with a group of retrobates, The Racqueteers, listen to or play music, and read.